Yet their citizens determine the government, and hence whether they are bound by it...
Not quite. In France both big parties (the only ones with a reasonable chance at presidency) support Europe. They use Europe to their own benefit and every time something goes wrong they blame the Europe for it. It works well and everyone has mixed feelings about Europe. Yet, as the perfect scapegoat, they have a big incentive to stay in Europe.
So in your view noone can be blamed for the consequences of their speech?
Let's say I take a 5 years old, I convince him that jumping out of the window is safe and I watch him do it. I would not be guilty of anything in regard of the law? After all, I just talked to the boy! That has to be legal!
And if your answer is that I would be found guilty, it means my speech can bring me to jail, so in effect, I do not benefit from free speech since I can be jailed for saying something a judge find objectionable.
And they couldn't even make it the same thickness as the old iPhone so it would last one day on one charge?
If you want to buy a new phone that is thicker than the previous one just to keep battery time equal, I guess you are stuck with Android. Or maybe a Windows pone.
I have EVERY ONE of the apps that do panorama on the iPhone. Trust me, they are nothing like the Panoramic feature that is built in.
A panorama with iOS6 takes 3-4 seconds, is smooth, the result is 30 Megapixels with ABSOLUTELY no trace of "stiching" even when there are shitloads of people walking around you. And an exposure change along the panorama is virtually seamless. I don't know of an app with ONE of these qualities. The key - I think - is that it's not based on several shots, but one big continuous shot.
I didn't think it was possible actually given the crappy apps the App Store is loaded with.
That said, I agree, it's not a key feature of the phone, but man, now I can take panoramas.
iFixit's usual thorough analysis reveals that nearly every hardware component has been upgraded or improved, yet is so power efficient that the battery capacity largely remains the same.
And they couldn't even make it the same thickness as the old iPhone so it would last one day on one charge?
I'm sick of "new features". How about releasing last year's phone with 4x the battery life since that's what technology can do?
I've run several Java-based websites onto several hosting companies (both dedicated servers and shared hosting). I've never had to pay for any "panel software". All I ever needed was an SSH access.
Wouldn't that require upgrading to a more expensive hosting plan that supports Java or C#? Wasting money on licenses is as bad as if not worse than wasting money on power. Or what am I missing?
You're missing the part that Java is free and that there is also an open source version. What licenses are you talking about?
Yes, I work in a professional complex environment, and the masters for all workstations have a Firefox AND an IE6.
I still do not see where the problem is to get there? You need IE6? Keep it for god's sake, nobody gives a flying fuck !
Just don't use it to go to the web. The reasons are so numerous I can't start anywhere. Security, performance, compliance, anything, really, should be enough to convince anyone to add a Firefox to their masters for all of the company's computers.
And if your IT manages 20000 computers and doesn't have a way to deploy something in an automated fashion, then maybe it is time to setup something like this. It's well overdue in any case.
If you don't mind a thicker iPhone there are external battery packs you can get that clip to the back.
Which is about 50% as efficient as a native battery would be, not mentioning it does cripple your ability to dock your phone, use a case or any other cool thing you do with the accessories designed for your phones.
Hmmm. Are you saying your applications will stop working with your special flavor of Internet Explorer if you dare install Firefox? You know they can both coexist on the same machine?
Use your IE for whatever it is required. Use Firefox for the rest and the Web.
Whereas said web crap that has to support IE6, also has to work with IE7, and IE8, and IE9, and Firefox, and Chrome, and Safari. And it has to "look good" in the recent browsers without looking like crap in IE6.
A lot of the web crap that needs to work on IE6 doesn't need to work on anything else, it's antique ActiveX that doesn't and never will work on something other than IE6.
You haven't paid much attention to the web in the last decade have you?
All apps are required to work on the iPhone screen size and then smaller screen sizes. When you are in a phone call, the top bar (showing the time, battery, reception,...) becomes bigger and all apps that I know of (except some games) react nicely using a little less real estate on screen.
This is already the case for current iPhone apps. As this policy is already in place, I don't see that there is a problem here.
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Yet their citizens determine the government, and hence whether they are bound by it...
Not quite. In France both big parties (the only ones with a reasonable chance at presidency) support Europe. They use Europe to their own benefit and every time something goes wrong they blame the Europe for it. It works well and everyone has mixed feelings about Europe. Yet, as the perfect scapegoat, they have a big incentive to stay in Europe.
"and are now bound by it."
should have read: and have now bounded their citizens by it.
So in your view noone can be blamed for the consequences of their speech?
Let's say I take a 5 years old, I convince him that jumping out of the window is safe and I watch him do it. I would not be guilty of anything in regard of the law? After all, I just talked to the boy! That has to be legal!
And if your answer is that I would be found guilty, it means my speech can bring me to jail, so in effect, I do not benefit from free speech since I can be jailed for saying something a judge find objectionable.
Let me know.
And they couldn't even make it the same thickness as the old iPhone so it would last one day on one charge?
If you want to buy a new phone that is thicker than the previous one just to keep battery time equal, I guess you are stuck with Android. Or maybe a Windows pone.
Yeah? Which phone would that be?
I found one much better: http://www.ephotozine.com/articles/360-panorama-iphone-app-review-17293/images/360_panorama_3.JPG
This is just a bad toy, not a panorama app.
Do you mean the app that produced this: http://www.ephotozine.com/articles/360-panorama-iphone-app-review-17293/images/360_panorama_1.JPG ? You can see defects and blurred areas pretty much everywhere ! This is just not in the same league for me.
The article ( http://www.ephotozine.com/article/360-panorama-iphone-app-review-17293 ) sums it up pretty nicely: "Overall, for £0.69, you can't really complain, but there are more impressive apps on the market"
I have EVERY ONE of the apps that do panorama on the iPhone. Trust me, they are nothing like the Panoramic feature that is built in.
A panorama with iOS6 takes 3-4 seconds, is smooth, the result is 30 Megapixels with ABSOLUTELY no trace of "stiching" even when there are shitloads of people walking around you. And an exposure change along the panorama is virtually seamless. I don't know of an app with ONE of these qualities. The key - I think - is that it's not based on several shots, but one big continuous shot.
I didn't think it was possible actually given the crappy apps the App Store is loaded with.
That said, I agree, it's not a key feature of the phone, but man, now I can take panoramas.
iOS6 has an *amazing* panoramic mode. I haven't seen anything anywhere that resembles it in terms of ease of use and quality of the shots produced.
It even works on my iPhone 4S.
You can see a sample I made in 7 seconds while bored. My first shot at the functionnality: http://france.palmdrive.net/pb/2012/09/23/1348404600000.html (Just click on the image)
"Everything you need to know to take the best pictures imaginable with the iPhone, the best camera you have with you".
It's easy for it to be the "best camera you have with you" when it's the only camera you have with you...
You got the point. Congratulations. Your reward is in the mail.
I keep seeing that, but the people don't pay more. The carriers pay more to Apple and subsidize more heavily
Math wasn't your strong point hmmm?
iFixit's usual thorough analysis reveals that nearly every hardware component has been upgraded or improved, yet is so power efficient that the battery capacity largely remains the same.
And they couldn't even make it the same thickness as the old iPhone so it would last one day on one charge?
I'm sick of "new features". How about releasing last year's phone with 4x the battery life since that's what technology can do?
Apple used to be quite famous for innovations, not for anti-competitive lawsuits.
What makes you think this has changed outside of slashdot?
I've run several Java-based websites onto several hosting companies (both dedicated servers and shared hosting). I've never had to pay for any "panel software". All I ever needed was an SSH access.
A server is a sort of bulked-up desktop computer, minus a screen and keyboard, that contains chips to process data.
Does it means servers have mice?
Wouldn't that require upgrading to a more expensive hosting plan that supports Java or C#? Wasting money on licenses is as bad as if not worse than wasting money on power. Or what am I missing?
You're missing the part that Java is free and that there is also an open source version. What licenses are you talking about?
Woaaah, you're on a trip here!
Yes, I work in a professional complex environment, and the masters for all workstations have a Firefox AND an IE6.
I still do not see where the problem is to get there? You need IE6? Keep it for god's sake, nobody gives a flying fuck !
Just don't use it to go to the web. The reasons are so numerous I can't start anywhere. Security, performance, compliance, anything, really, should be enough to convince anyone to add a Firefox to their masters for all of the company's computers.
And if your IT manages 20000 computers and doesn't have a way to deploy something in an automated fashion, then maybe it is time to setup something like this. It's well overdue in any case.
If you don't mind a thicker iPhone there are external battery packs you can get that clip to the back.
Which is about 50% as efficient as a native battery would be, not mentioning it does cripple your ability to dock your phone, use a case or any other cool thing you do with the accessories designed for your phones.
I vote in. I'd take an iPhone 50% thicker with doubled battery life over the current one any day.
Hmmm. Are you saying your applications will stop working with your special flavor of Internet Explorer if you dare install Firefox? You know they can both coexist on the same machine?
Use your IE for whatever it is required. Use Firefox for the rest and the Web.
http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
It turns out you can already disguise all of your traffic as a DNS request.
So we deserve to be left out in the cold, because we have a need for applications that have yet to be upgraded to support IE9+?
No, you deserve to be left out in the cold for refusing to install either Chrome, Firefox or Safari.
Whereas said web crap that has to support IE6, also has to work with IE7, and IE8, and IE9, and Firefox, and Chrome, and Safari. And it has to "look good" in the recent browsers without looking like crap in IE6.
A lot of the web crap that needs to work on IE6 doesn't need to work on anything else, it's antique ActiveX that doesn't and never will work on something other than IE6.
You haven't paid much attention to the web in the last decade have you?
If you're trying to find your car keys, you never will unless you look for them.
Ok, let's get real here. The proper analogy would be if you told me how to find the tooth fairy.
All apps are required to work on the iPhone screen size and then smaller screen sizes. When you are in a phone call, the top bar (showing the time, battery, reception, ...) becomes bigger and all apps that I know of (except some games) react nicely using a little less real estate on screen.
This is already the case for current iPhone apps. As this policy is already in place, I don't see that there is a problem here.
I think you should be medicated. There is nothing after death, no need to lure people where there's nothing. That's called fraud.